Week 10: Multimodal Poetry

Amanda Gorman and Shane Koyczan

Tuesday, March 23

Thursday, March 25

  • Asynchronous class (we don’t meet today):
    • Do a multimodal analysis of a music video you like, focusing on how all its different elements come together to communicate more than the sum of its parts (images, video, lyrics, performance, sound, etc.). Include a link to the music video. Incorporate screenshots and links to specific moments in the video (in YouTube, you can share a link to a specific second in the video), and analyze at least one moment in this. Make your posts in Word or Google Docs format.
    • Post this analysis in Google Classroom (you will see the assignment) before 8:00 am on Saturday, March 27.
    • Read and respond substantively to at least 2 your classmates posts before Tuesday, March 30 at 9:30 am.

By Leonardo Flores

Professor Leonardo Flores is Chair of the English Department at Appalachian State University. He taught at the English Department at University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez Campus from 1994 to 2019. He is President of the Electronic Literature Organization. He was the 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. His research areas are electronic literature and its preservation via criticism, documentation, and digital archives. He is the creator of a scholarly blogging project titled I ♥ E-Poetry, co-editor of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3, and has a Spanish language e-lit column in 80 Grados. He is currently co-editing the first Anthology of Latin American Electronic Literature. For more information on his current work, visit leonardoflores.net.